In the mail yesterday I received a very timely gift: A copy of the new book “Evangelism Remixed”by Dave Rahn and Terry Linhart. We are heading to junior high summer camp tomorrow and I can’t wait to take it with me! Afew reasons I’m excited about this new book:
1) Of all the things our youth ministry “does” (evangelism, fellowship, discipleship, ministry, worship), I’m probably most passionate about evangelism. And the form of evangelism I’m most passionate about is helping students develop the desire to be salt and light to the people around them. Because of that, the sub-title of the book is what I’m most excited about “….Empowering students for courageous and contagious faith”.
2) I’m also excited because of the timeliness of this book for our youth ministry. Historically, our primary evangelistic tool has been students sharing Christ with their friends. However, in the past year we have slipped dangerously close to abandoning that philosophy in favor of the traditional “program-driven” evangelism. This was due in large part to the fact that we moved into an incredible new youth facility which made it almost irresponsible to not leverage it with some new programs to attract students. But, now that we have been in the building for over a year and the “shine” has worn off, it’s time to get back to our bread and butter and re-create a culture of friendship evangelism (that’s what we call it).
3) I really like the cover! I’m one of those silly consumers who makes initial judgments and purchases based on first impressions. The cover of this book is super clean and fresh looking. I tried to insert it into this post but it was messing up the alignment of the text (I’m not very blog savy) so you will have to open the link above to check it out for yourself. Plus I know that once you are on the Amazon page, you’ll probably just go ahead and buy the book!
So, even though I haven’t read it yet I feel pretty confident I can highly recommend Evangelism Remixed simply because I believe in the premise that the best evangelism is when it’s led by students.


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